I have been meaning to setup a blog or wiki for sometime but for one reason or another it never happend but as you can see it has happend now! I have looked into many opensource solutions but was always trying to find one built on ASP.net as that is my area of expertise and with BlogEngine.net 2.5 being launched I thought I had to give it ago. I was remarkable surprised how easy it was to get up and running, I applied a custom theme and got BlogEngine.Net configured to use Microsoft SQL Server rather than the default XML file system store all within a matter of minutes. The only downside was the application was a website rather than a web application, so I attempted to convert the application after [many] minutes this was successfully achieved and here we are.
For those of you not aware of a difference in MS .Net on the difference between a website and web applicaion is, a website is compiled on the fly by the webserver and a web application is compiled at build time. This stackoverflow Q&A give a full run down the differences. In my daily work we always use web application as it offers all we need to get the application developed, tested and released through continous intergration. I am aware this will mean that if I was to add a new theme to make to BlogEngine.net will require me make a code change and compile then deploy rather than just applying a theme on to the server.
The purpose of starting this blog is to act as my notebook of what I have done in my work so I have some record of what I have done in case I need it again and if it helps the community then all the better.
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